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// Chapter 4-Practice Makes Perfect 
// Story: The Iron Horse 
// by TheMightyEquestrian47 
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	After a night of tossing and turning in bed, Pinkie Pie woke up with her back feeling as good as new. "Huh, I wonder how you work these things?" says Pinkie Pie staring at her wings. She slowly opened her wings and then they shot open to full wingspan. "Cool!" says Pinkie Pie dazzled by her spread out wings. She then concentrated and started to lift off the ground like a feather. After she began to float, she decided to try and fly down the stairs. Flapping her wings as fast as possible, she flew through her bedroom door frame and into the hallway wall. Her head was now stuck in Pound and Pumpkin Cake's wall. They laughed at Pinkie as she struggled to pull her head out of the wall. After a minute of struggling, he finally freed her head from the wall but flew back and knocked her head with a big forceful impact on the wall parallel to the other one. She then stood up dizzy with a small bump on her head. "Ouch, flying hurts!" says Pinkie Pie as stretches out her wings and tries again. Pushing up off the ground, Pinkie Pie flew downstairs only to slam her head right through a chocolate cake. She licked her face and stepped out of the cake. "Pinkie? What are you doing?" says Mr Cake as he walks into the room. "I'm practicing my flying!" she says as she expands her new wings to show off to Mr Cake. "Um, I thought you didn't have wings?" says Mr Cake cleaning up the mess on the floor. Pinkie Pie laughs at Mr Cake. "Yeah I didn't but I just got them made yesterday by this weird merchant I met the other day!" Mr Cake rolls his eyes and sighs. "Ok fine, I don't care. Just please don't get hurt please?" he says opening the back door. "Will do! Now stand back!" Pinkie Pie pushes off the ground and soars out the backdoor. "Oh Pinkie, you are so random" says Mr Cake as he closes the door and chuckles.
After crashing into buildings, ponies and carts, she finally arrives at the Merchants building. Flying out of control she yells "Watch out!" as Pinkie Pie spirals into the merchant. The force of her impact knocked the colt's hood back and he quickly flipped it back before she could notice. He gets up and brushes himself off "I see that you can fly now, not very good though!" Pinkie Pie then chuckles agreeing with him. "Well there is always room for improvement, but here let me show you something" the merchant says as he opens a large steel door in the back of his factory. The door opens to a large dusty, and old turbine room. "Since I see that you can't fly very well, I decided to set up this room into a training room for you" he says as he waves his arm and hits a switch. The turbines turn on and a large wind gust of dust blows out of them. "The turbines will help you with resistance training to make you fly better in high speeds winds".  Pushing another switch opened a large gate at the back of the room. Stepping outside, Pinkie Pie looked around and saw that it was a completely abandoned airplane runway. The runway sat right in the middle of a huge field enclosed by electrical wiring. Everything about the runway was still intact, even the Tower lights still worked spinning its radar round and round. Pinkie Pie was amazed that this whole place looked as if it was the day it was built. "Its a real shame that factory was abandoned, this place used to be a airplane factory but due to low success rate of the planes, the factory was closed and was totally forgotten." says the Merchant as he opens one of the hangars revealing a large jet inside. "I'm going to let you use this area for practice" He then explained to Pinkie all of the instructions on how to use the machines throughout the building. After informing her for her safety, he walked off back into the factory.
Day after day, week after week, Pinkie Pie kept returning to train her wings to learn to fly gracefully. All the while, the merchant was watching her from his workshop within the factory.  Over time, Pinkie Pie significantly improved. Her improvement inspired the colt to write a journal section about her. It read:

"Starting out barely being able to fly in a straight line to being able to fly through a hurricane is extraordinary! She put her all into every day she trained in the factory and it showed in the end. I see now that Pinkie Pie is starting to make up tricks and make up her own obstacle courses for her to fly through. All the tests I have put the wings through have been a giant success. Pinkie has proven to me that she can fly perfectly now without my help so today I'm going to let her go and show the joy of flight off to the whole town of Ponyville. If all goes well, my business will be booming"

One day after Pinkie's training in the field, the merchant came outside to congratulate her on her improvement. "Ah Pinkie Pie! You are flying better than ever!" says the colt smiling brightly. "I never knew flying could be so much fun!" says Pinkie letting out a big Woohoo after a loopty loop. "Thats why I'm letting you go! You don't need my help anymore!" yells the merchant. "Oh! So can I leave now?" says Pinkie as she screeches down on the ground as she lands. "Yes, you are free to go". Pinkie Pie then gives him a big hug and says "Thank you so much" then she flies off into the sky out of sight back to her house. The merchant stands there for a minute and stares in the direction of where she left "Crazy pony" chuckles the merchant as he walks back into the factory and begins to work on other inventions.